May 15 - Shey asked "Who is at the top of your "People you find interesting" list?" and started a huge thread (59 comments, 26 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

But this stats discussion/obsession snowballed with Hutch Carpenter's great insight on his blog post "FriendFeed ‘Likes’ Compatibility Index" [Hutch Carpenter - 5/28/08] http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008... (34 comments, 53 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... Louis Gray (34 comments, 24 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Jason Toney wrote "If I was geeky enough I would do this by hand. Instead, I'll wait until somebody generates some code from all this." http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Wow! crunching the numbers... - Anthony Farrior

Jerry Chacon and Shey posted their FriendFeed stats Thursday afternoon, Robert Scoble got into the game Friday (which always starts a big snowball effect) “Scoble's stats from FriendFeed” (35 comments, 23 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... , and people started posting their stats online. My summary of people's stats attracted some attention (11 comments, 20 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Yuvi http://friendfeed.com/yuvipan... wrote this article at Statbot http://thestatbot.com/2008... an started making "Likes Compatibility" lists for people. Robert Scoble and Louis Gray's lists are in the article. Thomas Hawk, Shey, Hutch Carpenter, Ontario Emperor, Dobromir, Bwana McCall, and J Phil's lists are in the comments. - Mitchell Tsai

Discussions - Yuvi (40 comments, 35 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... Shey http://friendfeed.com/e... Felix http://friendfeed.com/e... Russellreno http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

J. Phil added his list at the scribkin blog "My Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha FriendFeed Compatibility Index" [Scribkin - 5/30/08] http://scribkin.com/2008... http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Felix http://friendfeed.com/nybble independently made a Javascript Likes compatibility generator, and with Yuvi's http://friendfeed.com/yuvipan... help improved it. See Felix's comments http://friendfeed.com/e... and try his calculator http://comments.deasil.com/2008.... - Mitchell Tsai

Russellreno was the first to post his results from Felix's engine Friday morning http://friendfeed.com/e... My "Likes Compatibility" results & discussion http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Felix then tried 3-D charts (5 charts) http://friendfeed.com/e..., but they were hard to read. - Mitchell Tsai

So Felix added 2-D charts to his "Like Compatibility Calculator" http://comments.deasil.com/2008..., a great supplement to FriendFeed's regular stats. Here's a collection of 2-D charts [18 US charts, 3 Persian charts, and 1 Turkish chart] in a newer thread (6 comments, 25 likes) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Links to the "Gender balance in social media" issues raised by a discussion in Hutch Carpenter's article http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Felix's Javascript helped me do Social Network Analysis on a very active Persian FriendFeed network (5+ people more active than Robert Scoble and Louis Gray) http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Hossein Mazidi (mhmazidi, doctor in Tehran) http://friendfeed.com/mhmazidi 6,538 & Maryam Ardakani (maryam5063) http://friendfeed.com/maryam5... 6,237 are both 2X as active as Louis Gray 3,340 & Robert Scoble 3,217. Perhaps FriendFeed is not just the RobertLouisScobleGrayFeed, but actually the HosseinMazidiMaryamArdakani feed? - Mitchell Tsai

Here's a FriendFeed Stats room (Iran, 52 people) http://friendfeed.com/e... http://friendfeed.com/rooms... and a FriendFeed Stats room (US, 6 people) which Andrew Smith just started http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai